It's easier to set up a tcp/ip printer to the cups server. Add a network printer> http printer in winXP for the correct ipaddress and use port 631 (for cups print server).
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:37 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > Is anyone using Virtualbox 4 on a SL 6 x86-64 host running a MS Win > XP > Pro guest (presumably IA-32)? > > If so, has anyone successfully gotten MS Win to recognize a local > printer attached (and working under CUPS) to the SL 6 host to print to > it? > > I am trying to get Samba running on SL 6 to do this; it worked fine > under VMware Workstation on RHEL 5 (CentOS 5). I have installed two > virtual NICs under VirtualBox, one configured NAT, the other host > only > adapter, and have checked for the IPv4 addresses assigned to both the > SL > 6 side (vboxnet0) as well as on the MS Win side (via ipconfig under > the > command prompt window). I can ping from the MS Win side to both the > MS > Win host only IP address and to the SL 6 host only IP address, and > can > ping from the SL 6 side to the SL 6 host only address but not the MS > Win > host only address.
